Improvement in beading rain-gutters



UNITED STATES QPATENT OFFICE.

WM. H. HENDERSON, OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEADING RAIN-GUTTERS.

Specification forming part ot' Letters Patent No. 32,1120. dated May 2S,1861.

Making Beading for Gutters; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, Arepresentsa barrel or hollow cylinder which is secured to the base orframe B, as shown inthe ligures. This barrel has a tapering bore. thebore being of any given or required-size at one end, t'hen graduallytapering toward the other. A slot or opening is cut in this barrel fromthe periphery into the bore, lengthwise of it, as shown, from to ar.

` C represents a rod, which is also slightly tapering in form tocorrespond with the bore in the barrel. This rod is provided with a slotmade lengthwise ol' it, and also with a Inortise, d, as shown,`at oneend. Said rod is also provided with a crank-handle, D. p

Fig. 3 represents an end View ofthe rod C, from which it will be seenthat said rod is not round,but that the metal is out away from one sideof the slot or groove in it, as shown in this iigure. The object of thisis that( the rod may form a round bead.

In using this machine, the rod C is inserted in the bore of the barrel.The edge of tin for forming the gutter is inserted through the openingin the barrel into the opening or slot iu the rod. rlhe rod is thenturned by means of the handle D, and the edge ot' the gutter is thusbent around the rod for forming the bead. By having the nlortise d inthe rod the opening in the head at that end of the rod is round. Bymaking the rod and bore tapering the metal readily slips off-of the rodwhen the bead is formed, and then one end ot' the head being smallerthan the other thesmall end of one section of the gutter may be insertedinto the large -end ofthe other, and the two thus soldered together.

W'hat I claim is- 1. Is reducing the rod on one side of the groove in itfor forming a round bead, as speciv fled.

2. The employment of the mortise d in the rod, as and for the purposespecied.

3. The tapering forni of the rod, whereby I am enabled to readily removethe bead, and whereby one end is formed to fit in the adjoining end ofthe next section of gutter, substantially as set forth.

4. The tapering form of the bore, to corre spend with the rod, as andfor the purpose specified.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my name in thepresence of wit nesses.

WM. H. HENDERSON.

Witnesses:

DAVID ALEXANDER, ROBERT A. ALEXANDER.

